carrot

Noun

• promise of reward as in "carrot and stick";
  • used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote
    

• orange root; important source of carotene

• perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions

• deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cultivated carrot , Daucus carota sativa